Wednesday night was the broadcast of the 2009 World MMA Awards on Versus. The complete list of winners:
2009 World MMA Awards Results - Featuring A Drunken Diego Sanchez Video
Best MMA Gym: Greg Jackson’s Submission Fighting
Best gloves: UFC
Best MMA clothing: Tapout
Breakthrough Fighter of the Year: Brock Lesnar
Coach of the Year: Greg Jackson
Best MMA Brand: Tapout
Best Journalist: John Morgan, MMAJunkie.com/Dallas Morning News
Female Fighter of the Year: Cris “Cyborg” Santos
Leading Man of the Year: Dana White
Best MMA shorts: Tapout
Submission of the Year: Toby Imada
Best Promotion: UFC
Best MMA Media Coverage: MMAJunkie.com
Ring Girl of the Year: Arianny Celeste
European Fighter of the Year: Gegard Mousasi
Fight of the Year: Diego Sanchez vs. Clay Guida
Fighter of the Year: Georges St. Pierre
Special Achievement Award: Charles “Mask” Lewis
The broadcast was just brutally bad but it did have one crowning moment. I’ll let SB Nation’s Watch Kalib Run set the scene:
The broadcast was unbearable drawing comparisons to the Razzies or the AVN’s. The host, John Heffron, was far from funny and even his supporters turned on him by the end of the broadcast (not like we didn’t see that coming). But that doesn’t mean The World MMA Awards were a complete bust.
Diego Sanchez’s drunken acceptance speech came in to save the day.
Here is the full, glorious video:
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